Nelson Bennett stood at the west portal of his mountain tunnel on the afternoon of May 3, 1888, waiting for something that had seemed impossible just 28 months earlier. A…… Continue reading Stampede Pass: The $1,000 Race Through the Mountain
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Steel Dreams and Wooden Rails: The Birth of Washington’s Railroad Empire
In the summer of 1851, while most of America was still reeling from the California Gold Rush, a Wisconsin transplant named Francis A. Chenoweth was building something revolutionary along the…… Continue reading Steel Dreams and Wooden Rails: The Birth of Washington’s Railroad Empire